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> [“Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order. Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive. Something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/simpson-the-student-of-divinity-it-was-who-arranged-his-conclusions/)

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## More by Algernon Blackwood

> [Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/time-is-measured-by-the-quality-and-not-the-quanity-of-sensations-it/)

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> [“Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a sheet of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/deep-silence-fell-about-the-little-camp-planted-there-so-audaciously/)

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> [“Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/certain-houses-like-certain-persons-manage-somehow-to-proclaim-at/)

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> [Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/not-easily-may-an-individual-escape-the-deep-slavery-of-the-herd/)

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> [Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/ritual-is-the-passage-way-of-the-soul-into-the-infinite/)

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> [“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky lake shore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/the-dusk-rapidly-deepened-the-glades-grew-dark-the-crackling-of-the/)

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> [“The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/the-psychology-of-places-for-some-imaginations-at-least-is-very-vivid/)

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> [Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/adventures-come-to-the-adventurous-and-mysterious-things-fall-in-the/)

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> [“The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/the-impulse-came-to-her-clairvoyantly-and-she-obeyed-without-a-sign/)

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> [“He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/he-gave-it-the-benefit-of-the-doubt-he-was-scotch-the-wendigo/)

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> [“You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/you-know-he-went-on-almost-under-his-breath-every-man-who-thinks-for/)

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> [“In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it, but the ascertaining of an elusive scent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/in-spite-of-his-exceeding-mental-perturbation-simpson-struggled-hard/)

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> [“She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/she-feared-long-words-she-did-not-understand-beelzebub-lay-hid-among/)

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> [“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/and-it-was-in-that-moment-of-distress-and-confusion-that-the-whip-of/)

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> [The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/the-best-match-in-the-world-will-not-light-a-candle-unless-the-wick/)

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